Texture - Aural

• Monophonic - a single unaccompanied melody 
• Polyphony - independently moving melody lines (another way of saying 'contrapuntal' for Renaissance music)
• Contrapuntal - independently moving lines 

1. Free, no melodic similarity between parts
2. Imitative, another part enters with the same theme while the first continues its own theme
3. Canonic, a strict form of imitation, second part is near enough to copy the first, even at a different pitch
4. Fugal, as in a fugue or fugato 

• Homophony - Chordal textures, some times also described as homorhythmic - ALL parts moving at roughly the same rhythm

1. Melody-dominated homophony - textures in which the melody is supported by a rhythmically independent part, for example Alberti bass or broken chord patterns 

• Heterophony - Melody line is heard along with rhythmically different, or melodically varied version of itself.
• Antiphony - passages of music are performed by different singers/and or instruments in alternation. "Call and response"

• Octaves - don't forget to say how many there are and differentiate between octaves and unison
• Pedal Points - harmonic and tonal devices (make up the texture as well!)
• Ostinato - short repeated melodic or rhythmic figure, heard in conjunction with other musical ideas 
• Riff - a term for ostinato CONNECTION to jazz and popular music